Eros

One must understand that the unified front of eros and agape love, body and soul, is the path to the realization of ones self and his capability to love others and god. When the two are united eros is matured and can practice its authentic purpose. We are then lead to the term ‘Caritas’. Early theories of Christianity raised the questions of ones motivation behind evangelising god’s love. The selfish practice of showing love to reach salvation was a concept acted out. The church retained the…

‘The Eros Case' "You have thirty days to catch me, detective. If you do not, the consequences will be very severe. The timer starts now. Your deadline is the 31st of March 2017 at 00:00. If I am not behind bars by that time, five hundred people will die. Do not release this tape to the public, and keep quiet about this. Oh, and if you need to contact me, I go by the code name Eros. Tick tock, detective, tick tock. " Detective Viktor Nikiforov was the best detective in all America. He was often…

time. Plato’s famous piece of literature, The Symposium, is striking with its speeches on the definition of eros, which later translates to desire. The special guests that attend the specific symposium that Plato discusses are Phaedrus, Agathon, Socrates, Pausanias, Eryximachus, and Aristophanes. Each god attempts the challenge of giving their own explanation of what he believes eros is and how love derived. Many of the Ancient Greek gods spoke so pervasively about pederasty that it has been…

Eros looks like in natural human form when he is standing. Also drapery can be analyzed too. Roman sculptors used drapery to create a movement sense and to add a realistic view to sculpture. Except Eros figure all the figures wear drapery. It gives a movement sense, especially in the figure with horse is a good example to that. When sculptures analyized in aspect of composition; Eros figure is in the middle, it shows that Eros is important. Yet at the top of sarcophagus…

books and movies. In “Eros” Robert Bridges questions the thoughts of an attractive Eros, the master matchmaker, also known as Cupid. Anne Stevenson’s “Eros” provides a different perspective on the popular God by describing him as hideous. Bridges describes an attractive God and Stevenson describes a God who is hideous. Bridges and Stevenson both employ characterization, rhetorical questions, epithets and imagery to convey their contrasting attitudes on how love affects Eros; however, Stevenson…

The Greek god Eros is viewed very highly by many as he is responsible for love, lust, and fate. He illuminates the idea of love that we all look for. One’s attitude towards Eros often might reflect his or her attitude towards the idea of love itself. Robert Bridges and Anne Stevenson both have different opinions on Eros, as well as some similar characterizations and ideas on the god of love. The two poets depict their different concepts of Eros using similar techniques, such as diction, point of…

Assess the role of eros (erotic love) in the philosophy of Tolstoi AND/OR Solov’ev. In order to assess the question to the fullest extent, we need to begin with definition of eros and we need to be able to understand the meaning that Tolstoi and Solovjev were emphasizing using the word. In its essence eros is one of the four words in Ancient Greek that describes love. In the philosophical context eros has a much wider and deeper meaning that can be referred to intimate love, romantic love,…

written about the Greek god of love, Eros, by Robert Bridges and Anne Stevenson. Love is a contradictory feeling in which some people value its existence while others get bemused by it. The poems use specific diction, structure/syntax, tone, and other literary devices to convey their feelings of love and what love means to them. Starting with Robert Bridges, one can see that the syntax of the sentence portrays that it is a question in which he is asking Eros “why hast thou nothing in thy face?”…

“The Yellow Wall-Paper” talks about a woman going mad and “Eros Turranos” seems to talk about a wife complaining about her husband and committing suicide at the end. Both stories seem different from one another, but they share one thing in common, an unhappy marriage. Even though the narrator in “The Yellow Wall-Paper” seems to love her husband and the wife in “Eros Turranos” never left her husband, neither marriage seemed to be a happy marriage, however, for different reasons. John, the…

light of all of the benefits of Eros-driven orientations, both in general pleasurable happiness and in historical artistic production, it is easy to ask why homosexuals would attempt to adopt heterosexual traits and why Freud called homosexuality neurotic misery. This is because in the face of isolation and peer-rejection, individuals will always choose to belong over preferring their instinctual orientation. The stigma associated with homosexuality, and thus an Eros-driven instinctual…